Breve historia de los libros prohibidos

¿Y para qué sirve un libro? Esa es la pregunta. Alfredo Gómez Cerdá nos propone no todas, pero sí algunas respuestas: para perder el Tour de Francia, para ser trasladado a Medellín, para salvarte la vida, para llegar a tiempo a la boda de una hija, para ahogarse en un río, para tener trillizos, para hacer el regalo perfecto, para pintar la casa, para hacer una película de éxito, para evitar un error médico, para que te erijan una estatua o para ganar un premio.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Este estudio constituye el primer acercamiento crítico, en el mundo académico hispano, a las poetas y artistas de la generación Beat que, junto con los componentes masculinos bien conocidos del grupo (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs) revolucionaron la escena literaria urbana en la década de los cincuenta en los Estados Unidos, adelantándose así al cambio de mentalidad que colonizó el mundo en los sesenta y los setenta. ‘Female Beatness’ ubica en el canon literario y el devenir histórico a las mujeres que participaron de la efervescencia del excepcional momento creativo Beat y...